Knife guard



March 39 1926. 1,578,295

v. D. SWIHART KNIFE GUARD Filed Dec. 29, 1924.

i spaced relation with the latter.

Patented Mar. 30, 1926.

UNITED STATES VIRGIL n. SWIHART, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

KNIFE GUARD.

Application filed December 29, 1924. Serial No. 758,758.

To all whom it may concern V Be it known that I, VIRGIL D. SWIHART, acitizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county-of Cookand State of Illinois, have invented certain new and use fulImprovements in Knife Guards; and I do declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and'use thesame.

My invention relates tov in'iprovemcnts in guards for paring and slicingknives, to limit the thickness of the parings or the slices.

The object of the inventionis to provide,

an extremely simple and inexpensive device of the class set forth, yetone which will be highly efficient and desirable, and may be quickly andeasily attached to or detached from a knife blade.

7 lVith the foregoing in view,.the invention resides in the novelsubject matter herein after described and claimed, the description beingsupplemented by the accompanying drawing.

v Figure 1 is a perspective view of the invention applied to a paringknife blade.

Figure 2 is a perspective view showing the manner of using'the knifewith the inention attached. a

Figure 3 1s a transverse sectlonal view as indicated by line 8-3 of Fig.1.

In constructing my invention, I prefer to make use of a single length ofwire having some degree of resiliency. This wire is bent to form a pairof elongated arches 1 whose legs 2 and 3 are adapted to straddle andyieldably grip the blade of a. knife, the crowns 4 of said arches beingadapted for disposition at the back of the blade, in The legs 3 areconnected by the intermediate portion of the wire, which constitutes a.straight guard bar adapted for spacedparallel relation with the edge ofthe blade, said'legs 3 being curved sufficiently to offset the bar fromthe blade, to such an extent as to perwit a. paring or slice to passbetween the two, as shown in Fig. 2.

I The arches 1 are of a length substantially double the width of theblade in connection with which the device is to be used, and the halvesof said arches, adjacent theircrowns i are considerably wider. than thethicknes f he blade; that y forcing the blade into these halves, it isfreed, permitting the attachment to be readily removed from the knife sothat both may be easily cleaned and the knife blade may be sharpenedwhenever necessary.

Preferably, the free ends of the legs 2 are provided with appropriatestops 6 to engage the edge of the blade so as to properly relate saidedge with the guard bar 5. These stops may well be in the form ofwashers riveted or otherwise secured upon the legs 2.

followed, but within the scope of the in vention as claimed,modifications may of course be made.

I claim: 1. A. knife guard comprising a pair of spaced arches adapted tostraddle and yieldingly grip the front and rear ends of a knife bladewith-their crowns disposed at the-back i of said blade, said archesbeingof a length I substantially double the width of the blade I with whichthev guard is used, the-halves of sa d arc-hes ad acent their crownsbeing wider than the thickness of the blade to free the'latter whenmoved into said halves, and a straight guard bar for paralleldisposition with respectto the blade,the ends of said bar being]0111i6(jl to two of the legs of said arches, the other two'legs beingfree,

2. A knife guard comprising a pair of spaced arches adapted to straddleand yield ingly grip the front and rear ends of a knife blade with theircrowns disposed at the back of said blade, a straight guard bar forparallel disposition with respect to the blade, the ends of said barbeing joined to two of the legs of said arches, the other two legs beingfree and stops on the ends of said free legs of the arches adapted toabutthe edge of'the knife blade to properly position the guard bar. I i

3. A structure as specified in claim 1; together with stops on said freelegs of said arches adapted to abut the edge of the knife blade toproperly position the guard barn In testimony whereof I have hereuntoaifixed my signature.

- VIRGILD. SWIHART.

